Bridge Across The Sea by Pamela Griffin

Author:Pamela Griffin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Eleven

The moment Melissa saw Peter enter the restaurant, she knew something of great magnitude had occurred. Bittersweet knowledge filled his blue eyes, and his smile seemed to falter.

“Peter, what’s wrong?”

“My last name was Farlan, not Franklin.”

She let out a soft sigh in understanding. “You saw the list? You went to the White Star offices this morning?”

He nodded. “My mother never married; it was as I thought all along. I have no legitimate father.”

Melissa held a stunned breath—stunned because of the revelation that catapulted through her head with his admission. With this new turn of events, Claire would never accept him as a prospective husband. Now that he knew the truth, Peter could be free, if he so chose. But what of his heart? Would it forever be bound to the woman who’d denied it?

“Such things don’t matter,” she said to cover the strength of her emotions at the worry that all his searching would come to nothing if he didn’t learn to let go of Claire. “It doesn’t make you any more or less the man you are, the remarkable man you’ve become.”

His smile was tinged with both gratitude and regret. “With you as my champion, things don’t seem quite so bleak.”

“Good.” She moved to collect her coat from the chair. “Do you still intend to visit Mr. Harper?”

“I see no reason to do so. I know the truth of who I am now.”

She didn’t like the defeated tone that underscored his words; this attitude was so unlike him. “Since he’s the last one on the list, I say we should go. His home is closer than the others were; we can at least go there and see what he has to add, if anything.”

“The day I first met you, I went to see him but received no answer to my knock. I tried again on my way from the hotel a few days ago.”

“That doesn’t mean he’s not home now.”

“All right, Missy.” His words were resigned. “We’ll try.”

“Don’t give up yet, Peter. God didn’t bring you across an entire ocean to abandon you when you need Him most.”

He regarded her with surprise. “I thought you didn’t believe in guidance from a higher source.”

“I said I wasn’t sure what to believe. But the more I think on this, the more inclined I am to think a divine hand must have arranged the times and places: first your meeting on the ship with that steward who suggested our restaurant, then your meeting with Roger who just happened to remember all those people and gave you a list of where to find them. True, not every tip paid off, but then again, we don’t know what all might have been set in motion. Maybe God intended that we be there for them. Like that woman at the movie theater, maybe she needed the reminder of the tragedy so she could finally release any unhealthy grief she still suffered. Who knows?” She shrugged.

Peter stared at her as if he’d never seen her before.

“I know this all sounds a bit farfetched, but I just can’t let go of the idea.

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